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No. 557,621. Patented Apr. '7, 1896.

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HAGKLING MACHINE.

No. 557,621. Patented Apr. '7, 1896. J'ky4.

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\VILLIAH H. H. SISUM, OF BELLEVILLE, NEW JERSEY.

HACKLlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 557,621, dated April 7,1896.

Application filed November 6, 1894. Serial No. 528,073. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. H. SISUM, of Eelleville, in the county ofEssex and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Hackling-Machines, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of my improvement is to produce a hackling-machine which, fora given number of drawings or combings of fibrous material, will beshorter, and hence will occupy less space.

My improvement comprises a number of circularly-arranged sets of rodsdriven successively at faster speeds, provided with rests for fibrousmaterial and teeth projecting from these rests for drawing or combingfibrous material, the said rods being combined with means for preventingthem from having any rotary movement. Rollers may be arrangediutermediately of diiferent sets of the rods and driven at diiferentspeeds.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of ahackling-machine embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan or top viewof the same. Fig. 3 is an end view on a larger scale of one set of rodsand their appurtenances. Fig. at is a transverse section of parts shownin Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a plan or top view of the parts shown in Fig. 3.Fig. 6 is a front view of the parts shown in Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

Iwill premise that the machine is intended to be used for various kindsof fibrous materials and not for any particular material or class ofmaterials.

A designates the framework of the machine. It may be of any suitableconstruction. Mainly it will consist of side pieces and stretchersuniting the same. 13 B B designate three series of circularly-arrangedrods severally provided with rests Z) 11 b for fibrous material andhackling-pins b b 1). These rods in each set are journaled in disks orheads 13*, which are affixed to shafts B that are journaled in bearingsB", mounted upon the side pieces of the framework A. The rods at one endprotrude through the disks and are provided with cranks B which at theouter ends are engaged with holes in rings B that are held in positionin the framework A, so as to be capable of only a rotary movement. Theymay be confined to a rotary movement by stops 5 extending inwardly fromthe adjacent side piece of the framework. By thus combining the rods andtheir cranks with the rotary rings the hacklingpins will be maintainedat all times in vertical positions, although they revolve around theaxes of the shafts The rests Z2 b b consist of fiat plate-like portionsformed integral with the rods B B B or of plates attached to such rods,the ends being inclined upwardly so as to diverge from each other, theconstruction as a whole constituting upwardly-flaring supports forfibrous material. From the fiat body or center portions of these reststhe hackling-pins extend upwardly. The hackling-pins maybe of the usualor any suitable form. These circular sets of rods are intended to bedriven at different speeds and successively faster from one end of themachine to the other. Combined with these circular sets of rods arerollers O 0 0 One pair of rollers, C, is arranged before the first setof rods B. The fibrous material to be drawn or combed is introducedbetween this pair of rollers and passes from them to the rests andhacklingpins of the first set of rods B.

Another set of rollers C is arranged intermediately of the first set ofrods B and the second set of rods 13*. These rollers receive the fibrousmaterial from the first set of rods and deliver it to the second set ofrods.

The third pair of rollers O is arranged beyond the third set of rods BThe several pairs of rollers are intended to be driven at difierentspeeds, and, moreover, each set of rods succeeding a pair of rollers isintended to move more rapidly than such rollers, and each set of rollerssucceeding a set of rods is intended to move more rapidly than the rods.To be more explicit, the set of rods B is intended to have a greatersurface speed than the surface speed of the first pair of rollers O, thesecond pair of rollers G are intended to move at a greater surface speedthan the first set of rods B, the second set of rods 13 are intended tomove at a greater surface speed than the second pair of rollers C thethird set of rods 13 are intended to move at a greater surface speedthan the second set of rods B and the third pair of rollers are intendedto move at a greater surface speed than the third set of rods B Owing tothis the hackling-pins of the different sets of rods will draw or combout the fibrous material against the resist ance offered by thehackling-pins ofanother set of rods or offered by a pair of rollers.

The pairs of rollers O C O are journaled in bearings arranged inhousings formed in brackets O erected upon the side pieces of theframework A.

The gearing employed to secure the desired speeds may be of any suitablekindas, for instance, a train of gear-wheels D meshed together anddriven from one of the shafts of the last pair of rollers C such shaftbeing made to serve as a driving-shaft for the machine. From the lastpair of rollers C the fibrous material may be delivered in cans fordoublinga number of lots of similarly-treated fibers to secureuniformity in the finished product.

The hackling-teeth may be made of various sizes and shapes, according tothe purpose of the machineas, for instance, whether it is used as abreaker or spreader or a drawingframe or a part of a spinning-jenny.

It will be seen that by my improvement I produce avery much more compactmachine of a given capacity than is possible where the pins are arrangedon hackling-chains or upon bars propelled by screws.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

1. The combination of a number of sets of rods, heads or disks in whichthese rods are journaled, cranks fitted to said rods, crankpinsextending from the cranks, and parts capable of only a rotary movementin which the crank-pins are journaled, the rods being provided withpins, and each set of rods being driven at a difierent speed than any ofthe other sets, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of a number of sets of rods, heads or disks in whichthese rods are journaled, rests for fibrous material secured to the rodspins extending from the rests, cranks fitted to the rods, crank-pinsextendin g from the cranks, and parts capable of only a rotary movementin which the crank-pins are journaled, each set of rods being driven ata different speed than any of the other sets, substantially asspecified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

IVILLIAM II. II. SISUM.

Vitnesses:

ANTHONY GREF, \VILLIAM A. PoLLocK.

